88 ways to tell if you're stuck in the 80's
- 1. your fondest childhood memory is when Skippy got his head stuck
in the banister
- 2. you relax by putting on your legwarmers and dancing to the "Footloose"
soundtrack
- 3. you think the Two Coreys are "totally awesome"
- 4. you're still bitter that Wham! broke up
- 5. Punky Brewster is your hero
- 6. you type all of your term papers on a Commodore 64
- 7. you still resent your parents for not installing a dumbwaiter in
your house like Webster's
- 8. the only video games you play are Frogger and Pac Man
- 9. you're building your own Clockwork Smurf
- 10. your summer attire is Jellies and Jams
- 11. A-Ha's "Take on Me" is still your favorite video
- 12. you consider yourself truly, truly, truly outrageous, much like
Jem and the Holograms
- 13. you wonder why more people don't wear high heels, Jordache jeans,
and lacy ankle socks
- 14. you call all motorcycle cops "Ponch"
- 15. every time you go to the beach you look for Snorks
- 16. you're still upset Madonna and Sean broke up
- 17. you know who Stinky Sullivan is 18. you work out with "Get
in Shape Girl"
- 19. you want to be Molly Ringwald when you grow up
- 20. you enjoy dancing on the ceiling and wearing your sunglasses at
night
- 21. you know who Loverboy is
- 22. you think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion
- 23. you think of Janet Jackson as "that girl who used to date
Willis"
- 24. you can sing the theme song to Small Wonder
- 25. every time you see a fountain you want to dance around it and yell
"Fame!"
- 26. you still have a shoebox full of Garbage Pail Kid cards
- 27. you write your congressman asking him to introduce a bill to make
"Born in the USA" the national anthem
- 28. you still use your Snoopy Sno-Cone machine
- 29. you know it's not "comma, comma, comma" it's karma
- 30. you stay up nights wondering what Bastian's mother's name was in
"The Neverending Story"
- 31. you have nightmares about the Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine
Peak
- 32. you still practice your Care Bear Stare
- 33. you know that girls just wanna have fuh-un
- 34. you can name all The Wuzzles
- 35. you harbor a secret dream of being slimed by Alistair
- 36. you can do the Safety Dance
- 37. in your spare time you are writing "The Breakfast Club 2"
- 38. you like to "connect the dots, la la la la!"
- 39. someone metions Jennifer Beals and you don't say "Who?"
- 40. your prized possesion is a collection of "Return of the Jedi"
Shrinky Dinks
- 41. you know whose number is 867-5309
- 42. you get depressed thinking about Anthony Michael Hall's career
- 43. you're starting a write-in campaign to MTV to bring back Remote
Control
- 44. you drink Diet Coke because Max Headroom told you to
- 45. you consider Jo vs. Blair the major philosophical conflict of the
20th century
- 46. you have a duck phone and ride around your house on a little train
- 47. you want to be one of the Solid Gold Dancers
- 48. you still watch things on Beta
- 49. you want to change your name to Rio and dance on the sand
- 50. you know that "Weird Science" was a movie before a tv
show
- 51. your favorite proverb is "some like it hot and some sweat
when the heat is on"
- 52. you always waited for the Sweet Pickles Bus to visit your house
- 53. your favorite party game is Hungry Hungry Hippos
- 54. you saw the New Kids on the Block when they were Tiffany's opening
act
- 55. you liked Tom Hanks better when he was a crossdresser
- 56. you know which Hollywood Square Jm J Bullock was in
- 57. you practice getting in and out of your car through the windows
- 58. you have the tendency to turn up the collar of your polo shirts
- 59. you're still wondering who really was the boss
- 60. you know what the "P" in "Alex P. Keaton" stands
for
- 61. you keep asking your teachers if instead of the quiz you can take
the physical challenge
- 62. you organize weekend tournaments of TV tag
- 63. you still drink New Coke 64. when you watch "Terminator 2"
you wonder where Vincent is
- 65. you know ALF's real name
- 66. you never go out for anight on the town without frosted blue eyeshadow
and feathered bangs
- 67. you can name all of the Thundercats
- 68. you got a hankerin' for a hunk of cheese
- 69. everything in your wardrobe is either pastel or fluorescent
- 70. your musical inspiration is Sonny Mann
- 71. sometimes you just want to shout, shout, let it all out
- 72. you're planning a dream vacation to Mepos
- 73. you use your Speak and Spell to phone home
- 74. you know the original members of Menudo
- 75. sometimes out of the blue you just got to shake your love
- 76. when you're stuck in traffic you tell your car to engage Turbo
Boost and are surprised when it doesn't talk back
- 77. you remember when Vanessa sang Kareoke to "Locomotion"
- 78. you know that Mr. Steele functions best in an advisory capacity.
- 79. people are constantly gagging you with spoons
- 80. your idea of appreciating ancient cultures is "Walk Like an
Egyptian"
- 81. the only thing you know about the Nazis is that they threw Indy
to the snakes
- 82. you still use your hair crimper before going out on a hot date
- 83. you hatch plots to break Murdock out of VA hospital
- 84. you know which five people Serpentor's DNA came from
- 85. you have "We Are the World" on 45
- 86. you're still sending death threats to Mr. Rubik
- 87. you can feel St. Elmo's fire burnin' in you
- 88. you watch NYPD Blue thinking, "Well, they're no Crockett and
Tubbs, that's for sure"